AP MegaSports in XML

Upgraded Packages Will be Available to Both Companies' Web and Wireless Customers and Provide Enhanced Functionality and Flexibility for Content Presentation

New York, NY, USA. April 02, 2002.

ScreamingMedia Inc., a leading provider of information management products and services, and AP Digital, a
division of The Associated Press that distributes news and information to
Internet and wireless customers, today announced that they have agreed to
adopt and implement the SportsML format for AP MegaSports news feeds using
ScreamingMedia's conversion technology.

The joint offering, AP MegaSports in XML, will be delivered to Web
environments, wireless applications and other interactive platforms, to
provide customers with significantly faster implementation, better
customization capabilities, and enhanced functionality.

"Together we have adopted SportsML to give our customers greater
flexibility and advanced format options, presenting us with new opportunities
to serve our customers," said Thomas E. Slaughter, vice president and director
of AP Digital. "We are happy to work with ScreamingMedia to enhance and
deliver this SportsML news package."

The service will be rolled out over the next three months and will include
headlines, stories, scores, stats, sounds and photos from all major U.S. and
many world professional sports leagues, as well as top amateur and collegiate
competitions. The AP MegaSports package provides sites and services with
stories, scores, stats, sounds and photos 24 hours a day.

"We are proud to be working with AP Digital in delivering AP MegaSports in
XML, a top-notch sports news service," said Kirk Loevner, president and CEO of
ScreamingMedia. "This partnership will benefit our respective customers, who
will receive exactly the information they need, in the formats they want."

SportsML is an emerging open global standard for the interchange of sports
data, and is being developed by the International Press Telecommunications
Council, an independent international association of the world's leading news
agencies and publishers. Markup languages applied to news feeds allow for
easy packaging of text stories, audio, video, photos and other multimedia
content.

About ScreamingMedia

ScreamingMedia provides complete information management
solutions for the enterprise. ScreamingMedia's technology powers the
aggregation, integration and distribution of content into Websites, Intranets,
Wireless solutions, iTV, and virtually any other platform. ScreamingMedia
specializes in turnkey and custom applications for information-intensive
industries, such as financial services, healthcare, technology and publishing.
Serving the United States, Europe and Latin America, ScreamingMedia is
headquartered in New York City and has offices in San Francisco, Coralville,
Iowa, London, and Sydney, Australia through an exclusive agreement with
BecomeMedia. For more information, visit ScreamingMedia's website at
http://www.screamingmedia.com/.

About AP Digital

A division of The Associated Press, AP Digital offers news services with
text, photos, audio, graphics and video on a wide variety of topics to the Web
and wireless markets.

About The Associated Press

Founded in 1848, The Associated Press is the world's oldest and largest
news-gathering organization, providing content to more than 15,000 news
outlets with a daily reach of more than one billion people around the world.
Its multimedia services are distributed by satellite and the Internet to more
than 120 nations. For more information about AP Digital, call 800-AP-CALL-1 or
visit http://www.apdigitalnews.com/. For more information about The Associated
Press, please visit http://www.ap.org/.